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Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display



In article <[🔎] 398EC84A.92498F1E@freesurf.ch>,
   m.nine.six <m.nine.six@freesurf.ch> wrote:

> if it's a thinkpad (ibm) there is a tool called tpctl and is more or
> less equivalent to the ibm's orinigal dos tool ps2.exe and with this
> tool you can change the bios settings while running the machine.

Sorry, it's not an IBM. I'll test the suggestin with xset though.

> but i guess turning of the backlight is an bios option that you can't
> change with software.

And no, it's not "just an BIOS option" as SuSE manages to turn off the
backlight with the same configuration. So I think Debian should be able
to as well.

Greetings,

Stefan.

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 Stefan Bellon * <mailto:sbellon@sbellon.de> * <http://www.sbellon.de/>

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 then programming must be the process of putting them in.



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